The Department of Biosciences
and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) was
established in November 2002 to contribute the fascinating and emerging area of
biological sciences. It has both undergraduate (B.Tech.) and postgraduate
(M.Tech. and Ph.D.) academic programmes. The Department is unique in
North-Eastern India, imparting quality education and providing an excellent
research environment through its ongoing programmes. It imparts training for
students to make them competent, motivated engineers and scientists. The
department has 39 faculty members from diverse
streams and specializations. The department has developed extensive research
facility and infrastructure to support the ongoing teaching and research
initiatives.

The major thrust of the department includes biochemical engineering, tissue
engineering, plant biotechnology, nanobiotechnology, computational biology,
cancer biology, infectious diseases and proteomics. The department has initiated
efforts to establish advanced research
laboratories in all the thrust areas. Apart from fundamental research, the
department aims to meet the targeted demands to cater the requirements of
biotechnology based industries.